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US TV
shows stir up row with comments on queen, blacks
Saturday April 30, 2011 07:36:28 PM,
IANS
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London: Television
show hosts in the US stirred up a controversy during the British
royal wedding when one of them called Queen Elizabeth II a "bumble
bee" while another asked, "Where are the black people?"
"Where are the black people?" asked Sherri Shepherd of ABC's "The
View" programme, according to the Daily Mail.
The 44-year-old actress said she had searched through the footage
of guests at Westminster Abbey.
"Audrey Jones, our producer, was looking for the black people in
the wedding and we found our Rosa Parks moment, because we were
like 'where are the black people'?" she said.
She was referring to African-American civil rights activist Rosa
Parks who refused to obey a bus driver's order to give up her seat
for a white passenger in December 1955.
"It was like where's Waldo, where are the black people? We found
one little black child in the choir but where's the black people
at this wedding?" she repeated.
The women also mocked the queen and the dresses of princesses
Eugenie and Beatrice.
Joy Behar, 68, said the queen looked like a "bumble bee with a
drinking problem".
"Holy Moly, who wears yellow?" she said, adding "I've never seen a
queen wearing yellow, she looks like a taxi cab. Keep that meter
running Queenie".
When talking of the hats of Eugenie and Beatrice, host Sherri
Shepherd said: "Oh my god, that is Lady Gaga. Straight."
"They look like they are auditioning for 'Let's Make a Deal', you
know that show?" said Joy, referring to an old game show on NBC
where the audience used to dress in hilarious costumes, often like
clowns.
"They look like horns," said Sherri.
"Like a deer in the headlights," added actress Goldie Hawn, 65,
who was a guest host for the day.
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